A2Hosting Review 2017 – Unbelievable 20X Turbo Fast Hosting

Have you ever heard about A2Hosting.com? Well, you are the best person to know the answer. Seriously speaking I came to know about A2Hosting after getting regular feedbacks from our readers asking its reliability. So I thought to give it a try and find out actually what they claim is what they give.

Before I proceed further, let me tell bloggersutra.com will be soon hosted on A2Hosting. The reason for shifting from 1and1.com to a2hosting.com will be discussed in detail in next article.

What Is A2Hosting

A2hosting was originally founded by Bryan Muthig in 2001 under name of Iniquine. The initial setup was to handle the small number of dedicated clients. By 2003 they had gained customer base far more than their anticipation. Then They decided to change the name to A2Hosting in the name of Ann Arbor, the town where it was initially started.

It is an independent web hosting company (not owned by the larger corporate holding companies like GoDaddy ) like InMotion hosting and Siteground hosting having dedicated customer base increasing rapidly. They have some of the high profile companies and bloggers website hosted with them.

In 2007 A2hosting was partnered with Carbonfund.org (a major company working to reduce the effects of climate change worldwide.) Since then they were termed as Green Hosting Company and proudly claimed to be 100% carbon neutral. Their Icelandic data center has no carbon footprint due to their geothermal cooling system.

A2Hosting Features

A2Hosting is one of the most reliable hosting company since 2003. They were initially established with an aim to provide 4 promising features to their customers.

High-Speed Performance

Top Quality Developer Tools

Reliable Uptime

Customer Satisfaction

“ When I was going through the internet about A2Hosting, I could find the company is actually coming up to the level of customer satisfaction”. Well, you will also agree with me when you go ahead with the article.

They are mainly reputable for their high-speed performance. The most important thing required by all IT companies and website owners. A2 Hosting’s SwiftServer platform has been developed over the last 10 years by the company’s IT gurus.

Let’s now discuss all features in depth

Stable & Reliable Uptime (Last 12 Months)

Uptime or Downtime – It means money. Uptime is very critical for webmaster, especially for well-established website having lots of visitors per minute. Downtime can even make you lose $7900 Per Min based on the traffic.

It is difficult to maintain 100% uptime by web hosting providers. We have checked Uptime of 25 hosting providers (12month period) and none of them could achieve 100%.

Over the last 12-month period, A2Hosting came out with an uptime of 99.96% – .17% better than the industry standard of 99.79%.

Check out the details

A2Hosting Load Time and Uptime: Last 12 months, data can be found here.

High Speed Hosting

As I had mentioned earlier they are well known to be high-speed hosting providers.

They claim to provide 20X turbo fast speed. If they reach near to that, then also it’s a great deal. Slow website speed means losing 50% of your website traffic and ultimately losing the revenue.

To check out their claim we conducted some test and results were shocking.

The loading speed was almost instant. Amazing speed!

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A2Hosting page loading times came in with an average of 361ms over a period of 12 months – the highest among every web host we have reviewed – and 191% faster than the industry average (1052ms).

Best of all, their page load speed was also consistent and stable:

How do they achieve high speed?

A2Hosting limit the number of people and website on their shared hosting server thus providing optimal speed and reliability.

In addition to that, they also use caching software’s on their servers which store information in people’s browsers (thereby limiting the number of times they have to go back and request information from your website over and over and over again).

Caching software used by A2Hosting

Turbo Cache – The entire HTML contents of a page is stored by Turbo Cache and served without running PHP for up to 20X faster page loads.

OPcache/APC – Tests show OPcache can cut PHP page response time in half. OPcache comes pre-configured with PHP 5.5 and later version. APC is available on earlier PHP versions.

Memcached – Increases the speed of your MySQL databases by keeping your most important data in memory for quicker retrieval.

Amazing 24/7/365 Customer support

A2Hosting successfully passed the tests for Uptime and Speed. The next most important part in which most of the hosting providers fails is Instant customer support.

Most of the hosting companies provide Email and Telephonic support but not the Chat Support. I personally feel chat support is the best because you get the instant reply of your problems and if not at least representative will help you to raise a ticket and escalate it from its end.

When it comes to A2Hosting they have dedicated Chat, Email & telephonic support 24/7/365.

Just to check how fast is their customer support resolve the issue, we tried to contact them via chat and one of their representatives joined the chat instantly to resolve our queries.

Free Website Migration

Migrating website from one hosting provider to another is a difficult and time consuming process. It also requires good technical knowledge.

Some hosting providers like Bluehost charge you lots of bucks to migrate your website.

But migrating your website to A2Hosting is hassle free. You just have to inform their technical team via customer support to migrate your website. Then Just sit back and relax A2Hosting technical team will do everything for you.

Free HackScan Yo Keep Your Site Secure

A2Hosting provides a few helpful and preventative measures to keep hackers out of your site with HackScan; a free service including dual web hosting firewall, virus scanning, 24/7 security monitoring and brute force defense.

Some hosts simply provide similar tools to use if you’re so inclined. But unless you know what you’re doing, they’re useless. A2 hosting goes above and beyond by providing this preventative service for you, providing that whole ‘peace of mind’ thing so you can just worry about running the site (and NOT constantly performing technical maintenance).

1-Click Software Install

A2Hosting provides 1-click installation feature for most of the content management software (CMS) leading the market.

Their 1-click installation feature will give you hassle free automatic installation of software without any additional cost.

Few of the CMS supported

WordPress

Joomla

CubeCart

B2evolution

PhpBB

SMF

Magneto

Solid State Drives (SSD)

A2Hosting uses Solid State Drives in almost all hosting packages it offers. Compared to traditional Hard Disk Drives, SSD’s perform much faster and better. SSD’s store information such as read and write requests in microchips, while traditional HDD’s use mechanical arm to process information from a certain location to another. SSD’s contribute a lot to the speed and load time in your site.

Cloud Hosting Solutions

Security and lack of control over specific data are two of the most common issues in every web hosting company. With the power of the advanced technology, A2 Hosting is supplemented with Cloud Hosting, a special hosting service provided for customers to help them solve each and every issue at hand. This is another feature that makes A2 Hosting much more reliable. Customers never worry about their sites going down or becoming unresponsive.

RAID-10 Storage

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) 10 is a storage configuration that stores all the data in multiple hard drives. This is to ensure zero data loss in case one hard drive fails. The data lost in the corrupted drive automatically stores to other drives and the corrupted drive will just be replaced. This unique backup feature really makes A2 Hosting reliable amongst the others.

You get the most up-to-date developer tools available. You’ll have instant access to all newer versions as they become available. If you want the latest and best but don’t want to manage it all, choose a plan where A2H looks after everything for you.

Because A2Hosting doesn’t want to be seen as “just another hosting company,” you also gain access to their green hosting, a quadruple redundant network, and a regular backup service.

Risk Free Money Back Guarantee

A2Hosting gives full money back guarantee within 30 days. The additional feature is that they also give the prorated amount for the service that you have not used after 30 days.

Cons

They only have two data centers. If your target audience is located neither North America nor Europe.

Twitter Sentiments about A2Hosting

On monitoring the people sentiments on a2hostingon twitter, we could see 73% of people are positive towards hosting company. On analyzing it much closer it was clear that the user who was with negative sentiments are facing some minor issues with the company and their issues are being resolved.

Final Conclusion

A2Hosting un-doubtfully provides fastest, reliable and value to money hosting. If you are looking for hosting provider then your search ends here. You should give it a try and I am sure you will never regret. As I had already mentioned before in my article that bloggersutra will be soon hosted on A2Hosting.com.

A2Hosting Review - Editor's Rating

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Summary

A2Hosting is a decent shared hosting company for the money. It's ideal for beginners due to the easy-to-use cPanel interface and generally fast, reliable servers. While their support department aren't really one of the best in the business, but at that price, it's totally justified. Overall, A2hosting is a value for money web host.

Hi, I am Pradeep Beniwal and I am into website designing and blogging from 2009 onwards. Finally, I have developed this blog to help everyone creating their own blog and websites. Articles will help to develop your own blog easily and also provides you tips to earn money from your blog.